This map by the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis shows rates of growth in per capita personal income across the country.

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Michigan's metropolitan areas recorded some of the best percentage gains in per capita personal income of any urban areas in the U.S. in 2011, according to new government data reported Monday.

The Detroit area saw its per capita personal income - defined as personal income divided by population - rise 2.9%, and the Ann Arbor and Bay City areas saw their income rise 2.7%. The Monroe area saw its income rise 3.3% in 2011 from the year before, the 17th-best showing of any of the 366 metropolitan areas in the U.S.

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